Includes a rotary telephone and Touch Tone Card Dialer in one
integrated telephone. Modified in the Western Electric Distribution
Houses.

Marked 630DAM, 1179NO, 659523, Property of So. Central Bell.
G3 handset.
630DAM is the model of the donor Call Director set.
1179NO is the date, 11/79 and code for New Orleans.
65923 is the standard modification code number.

Another found set is marked SET TEL, DIG TRANS, B659523, MODIF, and has
a G5 handset with fatter 6-conductor handset cord.

The rotary dial could be used to dial a computerized service thru a
non-Touch Tone Central Office. Then Touch Tone data was entered
using either cards or the keypad.

Multi-line Rotary and Touch Tone Card Dialer with Speakerphone

1662 Touch Tone Card
Dialer
661A Rotary Card Dialer

"Siamese
Twins" Card Dialers
Appears to be two complete modified Card Dialers joined at the hip and
sharing one mounting cord and handset. They are wired together to
operate as one integrated telephone.

Modifications to the 1662 (left) include cutting away the right side of
the case and the installation of the speaker in the wells behind the
dial, and pointing out the back of the unit.

Modifications to the 661A (right) include cutting away the
left side of
the case and replacing of the line key with a standard speakerphone
module.

History and Operation

This set was found in the barn of a retired Western Electric
engineer. He believed it was cobbled together as an experiment to
see how the combination would work in several applications such as
remote ordering or banking -- areas his group had studied for many
years.
The labels on the front edge with names and extension numbers suggest
the set was actually placed in service -- at least as a test.

Some earlier Dataphone items were found in the same storage area.
They were also used in similar applications, with card readers used to
enter product model numbers and quantities for manufacturing and
ordering applications and account numbers for banking.

The rotary dial was needed to dial the access number, as many exchanges
weren't Touch Tone in those days. Once on-line, some data could
be manually entered using the Touch Tone keypad.

The crude
work cutting and matching the cases, uneven drilling of the holes on
the back, and the placement of the speaker suggest it was made for a
"quick and dirty" feasibility study. There are no test markings,
as was common for more formal field trials.

The pattern of the color fading strongly suggests that the rotary
faceplate was in place for years, then was lost or broken and
discarded. It would be interesting to see what it looked like. We
may never know for sure.

Unfortunately the white set was quite sun-faded, then stored in a wet
location. The bottom is quite corroded and the internals are
probably useless. The set was covered with a nice protective
layer of dirt and mold. Some can still be seen on the handset
cord, which hasn't had the first pass cleaning treatment yet.

I'll post more photos including the inside as the restoration continues.

Looks like standard cards, but is wider to accommodate an
additional row of holes to code the fourth column of buttons: FO, F, I
and P.

Box of 20 cards:
P-29E718
Card Index set:
P-29E719

Card for F-58553 dial

Shown below a standard early Touch Tone card.

Only one row of sprocket holes and rectangular (not circular)
holes. Cards meet American National Standards Institute
standards and are not
interchangeable with cards used with earlier model card dialers.

Programmable for digits 0-9, *, #, a, b, c and d for use in
special applications such as banking or inventory control.

The F-58553 dial is used in the F-58554
set, F-58555 keyset and
1037B dial adjunct (F-58556)

Box of 20: 840 360 564

Card Index Set

Used to alphabetize cards stored in the wells behind the dial.

Set order codes: P-13E363, 811 353 630

Coding Cards
for Automatic
Dialers

Details are covered in the BSPs. The following summarizes
info in several BSP issues.

From BSP 502-661-101, issue 1, July 1963

Instructions
for cards in Figs. 5 and 6.

1. Write name and number on card

2. Under each digit, punch the perforated circle in both the top and
bottom groups. Two punches per digit.

For example, to code a 5 punch the circles in the 456 and 2580 rows.

3. A punch in the STOP row causes the dialer to stop before dialing the
digit in that column. In Fig. 6, the punch in the digit 3 column
causes the dialer to stop after dialing the access code (9), before
dialing the three. After the second dial tone is heard, press the
START bar to continue dialing.

Note: STOP is pre-punched in the first column to have the
dialer wait for a push of the START bar before dialing the first digit.

4. Punch STOP in the column following the last number to stop reading
the card and initiate dialing faster (recommended).

Note: Punching 0 in the second group is apparently
optional for rotary card dialers, as it was not printed on the early
cards shown in Figs. 3 and 4.